2 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index 903a728c..790c064e 100644
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -48,5 +48,6 @@ suggesting improvements or submitting changes. Some of these people are:
  * James Marca <jmarca@translab.its.uci.edu>
  * Matt Goodall <matt.goodall@gmail.com>
  * Joel Clark <unsigned_char@yahoo.com>
+ * Matt Lyon <matt@flowerpowered.com>
 
 For a list of authors see the `AUTHORS` file.
diff --git a/bootstrap b/bootstrap
index 8cfc2c01..aa4d9e78 100755
--- a/bootstrap
+++ b/bootstrap
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ mkdir -p build-aux
 
 if test -z "$REVISION"; then
     if test -d .git; then
-        REVISION=`git log | head -1 | awk '{print $2}' | cut -b 1-8`-git
+        REVISION=`git log --pretty="format:%h" | head -1`-git
     else
         # default to svn
         REVISION=`\`which svn\` info . 2> /dev/null | awk "/Revision:/{print \\$2}"`